In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao determined the value of pi to 100 trillion digits! When Archimedes first determined this value, his was only three digits. His life…
Though she was Voltaire’s lover, she did not love him nearly as much as she loved …
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If you could travel through time, where would you want to go?!
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In ancient history, Rome had a few female contemporaries in science that forged a path for women in STEM!
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When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
When fifteenth century math became diabolically competitive!
Pacioli was an important person, not just in mathematics but also in accounting and magic…
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. The Italian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564. Between the three of them, there is a story that spans almost 2000 years. That story is known as the Galileo Affair.
Is mathematics invented or discovered? And if it is invented, can it be patented? Has it ever been patented? I will discuss this in today’s episode.